A Terrific Way Not to Remove a Stump

Removing a stump is a real pain, and doing it the right way can be obnoxious and expensive. Trying to dig one out is backbreaking that can leave you with questionable results, and hiring a professional or renting your own stump-removal equipment can be expensive. So it can be tempting to just sorta wing it.

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Here is why that is a bad idea. See if you can guess what will go wrong:

There's not a ton of info at hand about these folks or what they did next, but suffice it to say the whole SUV thing probably wasn't of a shortcut after all.

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